PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. Let's say, I'm an engineer or designer and I want to do some more product work while I'm at the company. Basically, the strategy is similar.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Unintentional test kitchens for products occur when a company realizes they have created a product to solve a problem for themselves that could solve the same or similar problem for others. A hindrance that keeps a company from getting a product to market sooner. Bevy recently raised over $40m to continue to grow the company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How did they in touch with the company? But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

If you really want me to be your product manager, then this is explicitly the kind of product manager I will be in our company. Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated. Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Company Description. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And, you know, sometimes such a request is better than a 75-pages technical requirement. So, when it comes to contacting the development company, product owners tend to skip the whole-picture level and go straight into details i.e As for functionality, any software development company can provide guidance on this matter.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Company Description. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Company Description. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Company Description. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. Many graduates are keen to work in a startup or technology company, but are not aware of the existence of the Product Manager role, and that it is ideally suited to them.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter into a new product management position in a new company. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager, whether it’s a small or big company, you are expected to get fast into the role, and many times you are expected to do it by yourself. I would advise differently. Congratulations. Make it personal.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 26, 2020

Consultant Consultants are in the business of advising people in a specific field. They may find themselves working with privately owned businesses like startups. There exist many non-technical PMs. Keep in mind that many companies, both public and private, will issue some form of stocks and bonus on top of the base salary.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. Many local and international design thinking companies offer similar services. Are you looking for a design thinking company now?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. Let's say, I'm an engineer or designer and I want to do some more product work while I'm at the company. Basically, the strategy is similar.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision. The author of the book is Valerio Zanini. 6:55] How do you develop a customer focus?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

She also led three acquisitions as she helped the company scale through a period of hyper-growth. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Brant Cooper, Co-Founder of Moves the Needle. Get your tickets.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

He’s a keynote speaker, adviser, and co-author of several books on the subject, including the provocatively titled The Best Service is No Service , Your Customer Rules , and his latest The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort. Bill: Sure, absolutely. We got acquired by the large U.S. The holy grail.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager or it’s a small or big company, you are expected to adjust quickly to the role. I have just landed into such a situation, starting as a VP product in a small startup. I would advise you differently.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

All of these ideas satisfied a specific customer need, but still many of these companies didn’t succeed. As an aside, I think that much-cited startup maxim “fail fast, fail often” makes the wrong emphasis. Technical Feasibility. Online shipping was not a unique idea (did you ever order groceries from WebVan?).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Technical experience is not required. It is easy to get lost working in a big company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution. Too often, companies make the mistake of going after too many things at once. The best way to know your customers is through feedback. Use it to make better product decisions.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Product tours are a useful tool for SaaS companies in 3 main areas: New user onboarding. For this reason, SaaS companies often use product tours to get their new hires up to speed at understanding their own tool. But how exactly do product tours affect your business?

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. Speak to a Learning Advisor. They came from a big company.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. We’ve all had unsolicited email praising some company or other clutter up our mailbox. There are as many different cooperation models as there are outsourcing companies.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After years of seeing companies head down the wrong path, we’ve come up with a short list of considerations for product engineers and managers to take into account when designing, or hiring a development team to create, a connected hardware product. Many companies forget that it is advisable to keep product specifications restrained.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. They came from a big company. The Personality Test.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The GDPR will mean heavier fines for companies where a data breach occurs. TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Great managers look out for you and want to make sure your career interests are being considered, but managers aren’t always fully aware of all the opportunities a company might have. You can’t really execute if people aren’t motivated and excited about the company mission. ” But I work in startups.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

In this article, we’ve put all our insights from building walkthroughs with thousands of SaaS companies in one place. SaaS companies use walkthroughs to onboard new users, highlight secondary features , and train new staff. Rather than reinventing the wheel, it’s smart to take inspiration from other companies’ successful walkthroughs.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions. Geracie describes how product managers are “minted” in various size companies and describes the role and its context.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

While the amount of time spent in each of these areas will vary by the company as well as by your seniority in the organization, the vast majority of your work will always fall into one of these areas. What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

I liked being that interface between what the company was building and what the customer needs.” I’ve worked for companies that shut down. She enjoyed the startup environment even though she was performing “a thousand different jobs.” “I liked synthesizing concepts. Don’t kid yourself.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I was recently interviewed by the folks at Reforge, a new company started by my friends Brian Balfour and Susan Su focused on advanced professional education. I gave some my 2 cents based on my experience helping startups and growth folks. They asked a great question – how do you interview for growth folks? Probe on Metrics.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. The rise of the internet, smart phones and all kinds of technical advancements, saw many monolithic empires crumble through disruption?—?leaving Ahead of his time he also described that the best “Brand Men” would do this though experimentation and customer interactions?—?obviously

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